Just thinking of does thinking of la belle doom the french effort to colonize texas . La salle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River. Claim to the lands for france. Got a commission from louis the 14th two, back and build a colony at the Mississippi River mouth. He got the slides together and came back in 1684, and landed at the texas coast thinking he was at the mouth of Mississippi River. He thought texas was part of the Mississippi River. And was insistent somewhere in that area he would find his river to build his colony. His problem was was that he had a map that he used at the time that he and his mapmaker put together that was dramatically wrong. It showed the Mississippi River floating flowing through north america coming down to the content and veering to the west and linking up the Rio Grande River and flooring into texas at the western end of the gulf of mexico. That map is what really got la salle off course. He offloaded the ships. Lost a big supply ship. He was do
Will take a look at those numbers in just a few minutes. Were starting out the morning with a partly cloudy conditions. It will be a bit warmer today than what we saw yesterday. Will take a look at the visibility and give you this coming up. We are pushing closer to the peak of their morning commute and we are still seeing pretty light conditions. The bay bridge toll plaza is backed up once again. No accidents to report is to slow traffic. If you should have on an extra seven minutes. The rest of the bay area rose look good. It is still pretty smooth and easy and no incidents to report coming out of the north bay. Overnight a strong earthquake jolted the northeastern part of the country this morning. A 7. 3 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean are around 518 local time. That is around midnight here in San Francisco. The usgs says the earthquake struck about 200 mi. Off the coast of japan. The epicenter was about 6 mi. Beneath the seabed. And here is video from youtube when
Bay bridge. In San Francisco you see a finger of fog starting to move over San Francisco. That is when we are also going to be waking up to. Some patchy fog in some areas will burn off later on, leaving us mostly sunshine and light winds today. Dry and mild week ahead. In fact, lets take a look at our threeday forecast and see how weather is going to be treating us across the bay area. We are going to be seeing pretty much mid60s to upper 50s along the coast there. As we head into tuesday, though, it is going to be a longer day now that the sun is staying up longer. Its going to stay warm and the cooldown comes later on this week. Carolyn. Lela, thank you. Breaking news in the east bay. A freeway shooting has injured one person. A red cadillac he is ka lid with four people inside was coming from an oakland club early this morning and driving along westbound 580 near 880 when another car came alongside it. Witnesses said the passenger in the second car opened fire, hitting the escalade
Saturday december 21st. Im mike. And im claudine wong. Mark is in for rosemary on this saturday. Its the last couple of fall, winter begins in the 9 00 hour this morning. Patchy fog is redeveloping near parts of the immediate coastline. Low 40s. San francisco 47 and san jose in the upper 30s. Winter begins at 9 11 this morning, patchy fog, mid30s, mid40s. 3 00 afternoon highs on track to reach the upper 50s to the low to mid60s. Well highlight the warmest day of the weekend. And well talk about what were heading into monday night. Two of barts Biggest Unions have an agreement that settle a dispute over the new contract. Once the bart board votes theyll ask members to ratify the new agreement. Terms of the agreement are not released. They had to go back to the table over terms the agreement. We negotiated for seven months. We are outraged that they held bart riders like this. Bart has not commented on the announcement. Ac transit has reached a tentative deal with their strike. Theyll pr
Heather holmes is off tonight. The long and testy negotiations between bart management and its unions has finally come to an end. That should make just about everyone happy, especially bart riders. Ktvus john sasaki is live in oakland to tell us another major Transit Agency also announced a big deal. John . Reporter ken, bart and ac transit have had riders on edge with their unresolved contract issues. Now it appears that riders can rejoice, because both agencies have reached agreements with their unions. Ac transit bus drivers who werent on their routes this morning met at their Oakland Union headquarters to hear the details of their new agreement. I just know that i dont like it. I think the fight is over, you know what i mean . Reporter the Union President says the deal includes a raise of 9. 5 over three years and a 120 per month healthcare contribution. And its a good deal because we definitely want to make sure if we can, to keep the service on the streets and make sure that our